Federal Benefits Open Season time! Are you ready? Check out these tips for making the most out of your benefit as a federal employee … During the last couple of months of the year, a lot of federal employees have the opportunity to change their allocations for health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, and other … Read more
Life insurance is a vital consideration in financial planning. Thing is: You might not need as much as you think, if anything at all … This is a guest post from my friend Eric Rosenberg, a personal finance blogger and podcaster at Personal Profitability in partnership with Mason Finance. He writes about personal finance, credit … Read more
FEGLI stands for Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance. It’s FEGLI open season this month (September 2016), for the first time in over a decade … One of the benefits offered to federal employees is a term life insurance plan: the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance, or FEGLI for short (the government loves acronyms). Employees pay for … Read more
Renters insurance doesn’t cost that much, and it can save you from a world of hurt … I rented an apartment for six years. My first year of graduate school I lived on campus and had about $15 of my teaching stipend left over every two weeks after paying for it. And I hadn’t bought … Read more
There was a good question asked over at the Money StackExchange site dealing with an alternative to conventional health insurance called a health care sharing ministry. The cogent parts of the question are below: … The basic idea of a health share is that it is a non-profit organization where members pledge to pay a … Read more
Today I had the pleasure of paying a visit to the dentist to have him look at a tooth that failed last night. These kinds of visits will be regular occurrences for the rest of my life, because I’m a dental cripple. The dental office graciously made room in their schedule for me, and built … Read more
I don’t hang out at money.stackexchange as much as I used to. No hard feelings, though: I’m glad to see that the site finally made it out of the 3+ year beta purgatory it was stuck in. They even sent me a cute little green piggy bank for being one of the more active users … Read more
Insurance not paying for a drug that you need? You may be able to get a formulary tier exception to save money … We’re fortunate that we have good health insurance offered through my work. It’s paid for the large majority of the issues we’ve had. After seeing the costs that can accrue with even … Read more
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